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Winter Drawers Ever Near

Winter Drawers Ever Near Report 3 Dec 2007 22:19

You're all crown but no fillings

You've got a lot of bricks but no cement

You're driveway doesn't quite reach the garage

You're one slab short of a patio

Your elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor

RStar

RStar Report 3 Dec 2007 22:20

Sandwich short of a picnic

RStar

RStar Report 3 Dec 2007 22:21

My husband's just suggested one, but its naughty.

Haribo

Haribo Report 3 Dec 2007 22:21

lights are on but no one 's at home

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 3 Dec 2007 22:22

sausage short of a barbecue

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

Mistycat

Mistycat Report 3 Dec 2007 22:23

A tail short of a dog

Sue

Sue Report 3 Dec 2007 22:23

You are not the most incandescent bulb in the shop

My son's favourite with drippy assistants...he's a naughty boy...lol

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 3 Dec 2007 22:26




coffin dodgers - old people [me I expect]
so ugly, fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down
A boiling piece - a minger of a girl
fur coat and no knickers
bungalow brain - nothing upstairs

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

*Helen S

*Helen S Report 3 Dec 2007 22:28

My dad refers to my mam as 'little better than an idiot' when he wants to wind her up, all in good fun though.

*Helen S

*Helen S Report 3 Dec 2007 22:29

not the brightest star in the sky

*Helen S

*Helen S Report 3 Dec 2007 22:31

rough as a badgers 'bottom' (insert another similar word). Which can describe a lady who isn't up to some peoples standard of femininity or can also describe a hangover

Shelli4

Shelli4 Report 3 Dec 2007 22:31

not got any to add but wanted to say Hello to Aileen xxxxx

Mistycat

Mistycat Report 3 Dec 2007 22:32

Crazy as a bucket of frog's...me to a tee
lol

cariad

cariad Report 3 Dec 2007 22:36

I used to say:

as nutty as a fruit cake

got no idea what it means!

*Helen S

*Helen S Report 3 Dec 2007 22:37

I've heard of 'mad as cheese' but I have no idea why cheese should be mad.

Sue

Sue Report 3 Dec 2007 22:37

Cariad,

It's like bara brith but with nuts....lol

Sue xx

*Helen S

*Helen S Report 3 Dec 2007 22:38

We do say 'daft as a brush' round here but it's more to do with kids being silly rather than lack of intellegence.

Winter Drawers Ever Near

Winter Drawers Ever Near Report 3 Dec 2007 22:39

Hi Shelli,

How's you and your's? All set for Xmas?

Aileen xxx

cariad

cariad Report 3 Dec 2007 22:40

as thick as two short planks,

or as thick as the outhouse (polite version) door

.•:*:•.Scouser*NANNA*Lyn.•:*:•.

.•:*:•.Scouser*NANNA*Lyn.•:*:•. Report 3 Dec 2007 22:43

Not quite a euphamism but on the lines of Ann's:

Old boss used to say - Everyone has the right to be ugly but he/she's abusing it!

Lyn x

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